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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam Wyatt BIBB
(1781-1820)
Senate Years of Service:
1813-1816Party: Democratic
RepublicanBIBB, William Wyatt, a
Representative and a Senator from Georgia; born in Amelia County,
Va., October 2, 1781; pursued an academic course; attended William
and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., and graduated from the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in
1801; moved to Petersburg, Elbert County, Ga., and began the
practice of medicine; member, State house of representatives
1803-1805; resumed the practice of medicine; elected as a
Democratic Republican to the Ninth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Thomas Spalding; reelected to the
Tenth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from
January 26, 1807, until his resignation November 6, 1813, having
been elected Senator; elected as a Democratic Republican to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of William H. Crawford and served from November 6, 1813, to
November 9, 1816, when he resigned; moved to Alabama Territory and
was appointed the first Territorial Governor; elected as the first
Governor under the State Constitution and served from March 1817
until his death near Coosada Station, Elmore County, Ala., July 9,
1820; interment in the family cemetery, Coosada Station, Ala.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Mellichamp, Josephine. “William Bibb.”
In Senators From GeorgiaHuntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers,
1976, . pp. 72-74; Bibb, William Wyatt. In Inquiry into the
Modus Operandi of Medicines Upon the Human Body. Philadelphia:
Carr Smith, 1801.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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